Książka Shaping Our Selves Erik Parens

Shaping Our Selves

Autor: Erik Parens
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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When bioethicists debate the ethics of using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2014
strony
216
EAN
9780190211745
ISBN
0190211741
Enbook ID
04511801
Waga
352
Wymiary
213 x 147 x 20

Pełny opis

When bioethicists debate the ethics of using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. The positions that participants adopt in debates regarding such ancient and fundamental questions are often polarized, and cannot help but be deeply personal. It is no wonder that these debates are sometimes acrimonious. How can critics of and enthusiasts about technological self-transformation move forward in the midst of polarizing arguments? Based on his experience as a scholar at The Hastings Center, the oldest free-standing bioethics research institute in the world, Erik Parens proposes a habit of thinking, which he calls

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